MEDIA: INSTALLATION
The wounded wall Art Piece shows the literal “wall” as a tragic metaphor for the hard shell, under which resides the throbbing laceration, a tangle of lesions, oozing vital fluid.
The incisions on the rugged wall are emotional dents on the surface and sometimes a vine grows in the hollow, mending and healing the gash.
My Blood Splattered ‘OK TO BLEED’ Sari is inspired by 'the wounded wall'
The Sari is a garment traditionally worn by women in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. It can be an heirloom passed down through generations, or a purely functional garment worn everyday. Much loved and yet often misunderstood, a Sari can be seen on streets and runways, and has influenced fashion designers across the world.
The ‘OK2BLEED’ Sari stands for wearing your scars (or your hurt) proudly fearlessly. Blatantly honest, unapologetically bold, this piece attempts to normalise the stigma of accepting or showing your pain. It stands for Bold Individuality, the act of owning your battle and wearing your wounds with pride.
Vulnerability, among all the emotions, is the one that is most often mistaken for weakness. In reality, however, the opposite is true; vulnerability is courage in its greatest form. Without a shadow of a doubt, allowing yourself to be vulnerable and admitting that you are vulnerable is downright brave. The blood oozing out of your wound has the power to heal you.
The incisions on the rugged wall are emotional dents on the surface and sometimes a vine grows in the hollow, mending and healing the gash.
My Blood Splattered ‘OK TO BLEED’ Sari is inspired by 'the wounded wall'
The Sari is a garment traditionally worn by women in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. It can be an heirloom passed down through generations, or a purely functional garment worn everyday. Much loved and yet often misunderstood, a Sari can be seen on streets and runways, and has influenced fashion designers across the world.
The ‘OK2BLEED’ Sari stands for wearing your scars (or your hurt) proudly fearlessly. Blatantly honest, unapologetically bold, this piece attempts to normalise the stigma of accepting or showing your pain. It stands for Bold Individuality, the act of owning your battle and wearing your wounds with pride.
Vulnerability, among all the emotions, is the one that is most often mistaken for weakness. In reality, however, the opposite is true; vulnerability is courage in its greatest form. Without a shadow of a doubt, allowing yourself to be vulnerable and admitting that you are vulnerable is downright brave. The blood oozing out of your wound has the power to heal you.
The sight of blood is repulsive to most people and when displayed on 9 yards of fabric, it’s a jolt to the senses. It comes across as a beautifully flawed garment, a statement, a scream that defines and empowers the person who wears it.
Even in modern resurgent India, the Sari is still perceived as traditional and demure, a garment that wraps around its women a veil of patronising patriarchy. It’s a device that’s meant to cover, hide and camouflage. The cathartic emotion that the OK TO BLEED Sari expresses is a juxtaposition to the common perception of the sari, it the Agent Provocateur ! More so, since blood is Red and no colour has more sensory appeal than red. No colour carries as much symbolism either.
The OK TO BLEED sari is modelled on a woman and quite extraordinarily, on a man. By making the feminine Sari a genderless expression of vulnerability, I have tried to disrupt and break the rules further.
The OK TO BLEED Sari goes a step beyond Fashion, it makes a complex social statement. Fashion has an enormous impact on consumers who buy clothes, on the runway, social media and films, and its time fashion moves beyond the fringe of frivolous glamour to touch lives with a larger agenda of social impact.
The OK2BLEED Sari is a metaphor, and a medium. A style statement that seeks to say, more than it seeks to be seen.
Even in modern resurgent India, the Sari is still perceived as traditional and demure, a garment that wraps around its women a veil of patronising patriarchy. It’s a device that’s meant to cover, hide and camouflage. The cathartic emotion that the OK TO BLEED Sari expresses is a juxtaposition to the common perception of the sari, it the Agent Provocateur ! More so, since blood is Red and no colour has more sensory appeal than red. No colour carries as much symbolism either.
The OK TO BLEED sari is modelled on a woman and quite extraordinarily, on a man. By making the feminine Sari a genderless expression of vulnerability, I have tried to disrupt and break the rules further.
The OK TO BLEED Sari goes a step beyond Fashion, it makes a complex social statement. Fashion has an enormous impact on consumers who buy clothes, on the runway, social media and films, and its time fashion moves beyond the fringe of frivolous glamour to touch lives with a larger agenda of social impact.
The OK2BLEED Sari is a metaphor, and a medium. A style statement that seeks to say, more than it seeks to be seen.
